The Source
Made with Taj Mahal and Nitin Sawhney, and a No. 1 on Billboard's world albums chart.
Ali Farka Touré, 1992
- Released
- 15 June 1992
- Label
- World Circuit / Hannibal
- Producer
- Nick Gold and Ali Farka Touré
Nick Gold and Touré produced The Source, with Philippe Bertrand and John Hadden recording it. Taj Mahal plays acoustic guitar on Roucky and Mahini Me, Nitin Sawhney plays tabla on Inchana Massina, and Afel Bocoum sings, and Hamma Sankaré and Oumar Touré provide the chorus. The album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard World Albums chart.
The Los Angeles Times singled out the solo instrumental Cinquante Six, which it likened to a meeting of Leo Kottke and the Gipsy Kings. Trouser Press found it most notable for challenging the singer to move beyond blues, on Hawa Dolo, and to play more intricate single-note lines, on Roucky. Cinquante Six, Goye Kur and Hawa Dolo were used in Olivier Assayas's film Fin août, début septembre (1998).
Track listing
- Goye Kur6:24
- Inchana Massina5:13
- Roucky8:18
- Dofana7:31
- Karaw
- Hawa Dolo5:47
- Cinquante Six5:31
- I Go Ka3:59
- Yenna5:54
- Mahini Me5:24
Personnel
- Ali Farka Touré vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, njarka, maracas
- Afel Bocoum vocals, narration
- Hamma Sankaré calabash, vocals
- Oumar Touré congas, vocals
- Taj Mahal acoustic guitar on Roucky and Mahini Me
- Rory McLeod acoustic guitar on Roucky
- Nitin Sawhney tabla on Inchana Massina
- Nick Gold producer
- Philippe Bertrand recording
- John Hadden recording and mixing
More from Ali Farka Touré
Ali Farka Touré (1987), The River (1990), Talking Timbuktu (1994), Niafunké (1999), In the Heart of the Moon (2005), Savane (2006), Ali and Toumani (2010), Voyageur (2023)
Sources
- The Source (Ali Farka Touré album), Wikipedia
- The Source (WCD 030), Discogs
- The Source (World Circuit master), Discogs
- Ali Farka Touré, Trouser Press